The team has laid off 20 full-time staff members and determined that up to 12 other open positions will be eliminated, three league sources told the Orlando Sentinel.

The moves impact most of the organization's departments but not the basketball operations department. They were announced to the team's remaining full-time staff of about 170 people on Tuesday.

A Magic spokesman would not comment. A team policy prohibits employees from commenting about staffing matters.

On Jan. 1, the Magic put a hiring freeze into effect because team officials anticipated that a labor dispute between league owners and players could lead to the cancellation of games. As a result of the hiring freeze, 12 positions that were open or became open stayed unfilled.

The NBA lockout went into effect July 1, and league owners and players didn't reach a tentative labor deal until Nov. 26.

In the meantime, the league did cancel games. Now, teams will play a total of two preseason exhibitions and 66 regular-season games apiece — a net loss of six preseason exhibitions and 16 regular-season games per team.

There were no layoffs within the Magic's basketball-operations department.

In recent days, the team hired four-time NBA all-star and former Magic point guard Mark Price to serve as a player-development coach who will focus on players' shooting. But during the summer, the department lost a full-time staff member: scouting information manager Charles Klask, who joined the Detroit Pistons as an assistant coach.

The team had about 200 full-time employees before the layoffs were made.